Accountability

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Accountability

SHEEO State Authorization Resources Updated

May 10, 2013

Sharmila Mann, a senior policy analyst at the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) association, issued the following announcement this week on SHEEO's freshly updated state au…

Major Higher Ed. Community Developments on State Authorization

April 23, 2013

The higher education community continues to make significant progress toward addressing the problems of distance education state authorization through the development of a state authorization rec…

Fed. Regs. on Student Identity Verification, State Authorization of Distance Ed. Back on the Radar

April 16, 2013

As reported in today's  Inside Higher Ed , the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has announced its intent to modify the rule-making effort  it originally proposed last year  …

Kindle Accessibility Concerns Continue

March 13, 2013

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) continues to raise concerns about the accessibility of Amazon's Kindle devices as well as its Kindle apps for other devices (e.g., the iPad) for pe…

California Bill = Path Around Curricular Bottlenecks Through 3rd-Party Online Providers

March 13, 2013

As numerous mainstream and higher education media outlets have reported--for two, see the New York Times and Inside Higher Education --the California state senate president is pois…

Sequester Impacts: Army, Marines Suspend Tuition Assistance

March 11, 2013

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) recently reported about another impact of the across-the-board automatic federal budget cuts known as the “sequester" …

Latest State Authorization News from WCET

March 8, 2013

  Friend of the blog, Russ Poulin of the WlCHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET), recently posted a new blog entry on current and pending developments in state authorization r…

The E-Learning Policy Environment (Updated 02/14/13)

February 12, 2013

I presented a session entitled "The E-Learning Policy Environment" this January at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (MARC) and just last week at the EDUCAUSE Learning…

Distance Ed Regulation Commission’s Work Continues

January 8, 2013

As highlighted before the holidays, in both a blog post and an EDUCAUSE Live! online presentation , the Commission on Regulation of Postsecondary Distance Education , chartered by t…

Latest News on State Authorization

November 20, 2012

Russ Poulin at the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) released a blog post this morning with significant updates on the state of play concerning state authorization. Major …